That 70 mile stretch you speak of in my favorite part of athens as well!

The owner gets to defer taxes on the second half of his capital gains. 

They get half when they start, and if they haven't finished the work in two days, I'll never ask them to do anything for me again.  

you can challenge the value with an accountant, appraiser, etc most markets have a person who charges a flat fee to lower it. in Columbus Ohio most of the people that do this have a guarantee to lower it or it's like half the fee 

He had a tax credit and they didn't apply it and then because they didn't apply the credit they claimed he owed money and then charged him late fees.He tried calling them NUMEROUS TIMES and waited hours and half the time his call was somehow dropped. 

Use a DSCR loan and cut those docs in half or more.

Also, we are 1/2 mile from 2 major grocery stores and all of the home delivery you could want, whereas I'm guessing that's not the case up at the lake.

Is there one a mile away?

Two of those properties ended up as LTRs which also made decent returns so I'm not a total newbie to real estate.So I've got three projects I'm looking at that will affect timing etc.1- My wife and I are currently more than half way through building a new primary residence house north of Asheville, projected completion in October.

If they hold for one month, my fee is half covered, two months fully covered, and if it's longer, I'm making a profit!